Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2005-12-02 23:00 UTC

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2005-12-02 23:00 UTC
Quick list of scheduled contacts and events:
Ralph McCall School, Airdrie Alberta, Canada Fri 2005-12-02 17:59 UTC
successful (***)
Sanderson High School, Sanderson, TX, USA Thu 2005-12-08 17:30 UTC
Mt Carmel High School, San Diego, CA, USA Thu 2005-12-15 15:42 UTC
Early 2006-02 Russian EVA with SuitSat deployment
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The ARISS (a joint effort of AMSAT, the ARRL, NASA, the ARISS international
partners including Canada, Russia, the European Partners, and Japan)
operations
team wishes to announce the following very tentative schedule for ARISS
school
contacts. This schedule is very fluid and may change at the last minute.
Remember that amateur radio use on the ISS is considered secondary. Please
check the various AMSAT and ARISS webpages for the latest announcements.
Changes from the last announcement are noted with (***). Also, please check
MSNBC.com for possible live retransmissions
(http://www.msnbc.com/m/lv/default.asp). Listen for the ISS on the downlink
of
145.80 MHz.
The crossband repeater has been active at times.
The frequencies are uplink of 437.80 MHz and downlink of 145.80 MHz.
For information about educational materials available from ISS partner space
Agencies, please refer to links on the ARISS Frequently Asked Questions page.
If you are interested in supporting an ARISS contact, then you must fill
in an application. The ARISS operations mentor team will not accept a
direct request to support an ARISS contact; the application must first be
sent
to the ARISS region coordinator.
You should also note that many schools think that they can request a
specific date and time. Once an application has been accepted the ARISS
mentors will work with the school to determine a mutually agreeable date.
There are several ARISS web sites:
English: http://www.rac.ca/ariss/
French: http://c.avmdti.free.fr/ariss/index.htm
ARISS Europe: http://www.ariss-eu.org/
ARISS Japan: http://www.jarl.or.jp/ariss/
Your completely filled out application should be returned to the
nearest coordinating ARISS region if your specific region is not
listed. E-mail is the preferred method of submitting an application.
Here are the email addresses:
ARISS-Canada and all other countries not covered: ve2ka@rac.ca (Daniel
Lamoureux VE2KA)
ARISS-Europe: jh.hahn@gmx.net (J. Hahn, DL3LUM / PA1MUC)
ARISS-Japan and all Region 3 countries: iaru-r3@jarl.or.jp (Keigo Komuro
JA1KAB)
ARISS-Russia: n2ww@attbi.com (Valerie Agabekov N2WW/UA6HZ)
ARISS-USA: ARISS@arrl.org (The American Radio Relay League)
Other web sites that may be of interest include:
http://www.arrl.org/sarexhttp://www.arrl.org/arisshttp://www.amsat.orghttp://ariss.gsfc.nasa.govhttp://spacelink.nasa.gov/index.htmlhttp://ehb2.gsfc.nasa.gov/edcats/educator_guide/
Latest ARISS announcements and news
http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.txt
Successful school list
http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf
The ISS Fan Club website is:
http://www.issfanclub.com
K1ELA has a website at:
http://members.aol.com/k1ela/index.html
ON6SAT has a website at:
http://on6sat.com/links/
IRLP website at:
http://www.discoveryreflector.ca
This new site will have the links for simulcast contacts that have IRLP and
Echolink.
Friends and family of the Expedition 12 crew have put together a website:
http://www.expedition12.com
A listing of ARISS related magazine articles:
http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ARISS_magazine_articles.rtf
Currently the list includes articles from CQ, CQ VHF, QST, and The AMSAT
Journal. Please contact me directly if you have additional suggestions.
Expedition 12 is now on board.
William McArthur KC5ACR
Valery Tokarev
To let you in on how tough it is to schedule contacts, here are some of the
constraints the ARISS mentors must work under:
Each Increment is 26 weeks in length.
For the next increment (12) we may not schedule:
1. Anything the first 3 weeks.
2. During EVA weeks (2 EVAs are scheduled for Increment 12)
3. at least 2 weeks prior to the Increment change.
4. no contacts during meal and exercise periods.
5. no contacts during post-sleep and pre sleep (before 08:00 UTC and after
19:30 UTC)
6. contacts on the day of Progress docking or undocking are circumspect.
Mike Fincke KE5AIT and Gennady Padalka RN3DT produced a video during their
stay on Expedition 9. You can get the QuickTime version (209MB) or the Windows
Media version (152MB). These files are huge, so only a broadband connection
is recommended. Thanks Mike and Gennady!
QuickTime:
http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/Video/Expedition9Tour.mov
Windows Media:
http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/Video/Expedition9tourwmv.wmv
A discussion on Doppler correction and the ISS frequencies may be found at
http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ISS_frequencies_and_Doppler_correction.r
tf
This file was updated 2005-07-29 04:00 UTC
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ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUDIO STREAMING THAT IS PROVIDED BY MCI.
1. Go to designated homepage URL.
2. Click on Audioconferencing.
3. Click on Audio Streaming.
4. Click on Join.
5. Enter conference meeting number.
6. Enter passcode (case sensitive) and there are 11 letters max.
7. Enter name.
8. Enter email address.
9. Enter company, use ARISS or AMSAT if you want.
10. Enter title (optional).
11. Agree to agreement policy.
12. Click proceed.
13. Wait for contact to start. If you are there too early, then you will
probably hear music. Contact streaming should start approximately 6 minutes
before AOS.
ADDITIONAL NOTES ON THE USE OF IRLP AND ECHOLINK.
IRLP website at:
http://www.discoveryreflector.ca
If using IRLP is more convenient for you than using EchoLink, please
connect to the IRLP reflector 9010.
Please give the EchoLInk EDU_NET server your preference over the EchoLink
AMSAT server for your connection. This will keep the load light on the
AMSAT server, assuring us of better audio quality all around.
For latest information on ISS - school contact audio feeds into EchoLink,
please check the AMSAT calendar of events at:
http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/fieldops/events.php
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Ralph McCall School, Airdrie Alberta, Canada, direct via VE6JBJ
Contact was successful Fri 2005-12-02 17:59 UTC 64 deg (***)
Congratulations Ralph McCall and Bill! (***)
Contact was simulcast on IRLP and Echolink.
Proposed questions for McCall:
1. How has amateur radio helped you on board the International Space Station?
2. What do you read on the space station?
3. How hard is it to change your clothes in space?
4. Do you celebrate holidays in space?
5. How much air do you need per day and where does it come from?
6. What is the most interesting thing you have learned so far in your
experiments?
7. What or who inspired you to become an astronaut?
8. When you look down at Earth, what does it look like and what do you think
about it?
9. Does the lack of gravity in space affect your bones?
10. Can you see the Northern Lights from the ISS?
11. When you are in space, is it hard to talk to your family down on Earth?
12. Is it hard to exercise in space?
13. What is your favourite thing about your job?
14. What is it like to be in space for a long time and then to walk on Earth
again?
15. What do you do in your free time?
16. What happens if someone becomes sick on board the ISS?
17. How long did you have to train to become an astronaut?
18. What is it like in space?
19. How do you get out of space?
Sanderson High School, Sanderson, TX, direct via KD5HYB
Contact is a go for Thu 2005-12-08 17:30 UTC 88 deg
Proposed questions for Sanderson High School:
1. How many astronauts are there?
2. How do you go to the bathroom in space?
3. How does it feel in zero gravity?
4. Have you always wanted to go into space?
5. How do you like being an astronaut?
6. What type of exercise do you do to stay in shape?
7. Does the weather change in space?
8. How does living in space affect your emotional state of mind?
9. How does gravity affect the body?
10. How would you describe the experience of re-entry?
11. How many astronauts stay on the space station?
12. What do you eat while you are in the space station?
13. How does Earth look from space during the day and at night?
14. How does the space station get it’s power?
15. How do you like it in space?
16. In space do you get to eat any type of sweets like candy or cake?
17. Can you see the Earth rotate?
18. What has been the most intriguing aspect of space for you?
19. What qualifications does your job require?
20. Is traveling in space like being in the army, since you never know for
sure when you'll be coming home?
Mt Carmel High School, San Diego, CA, USA, direct via KG6EQU
Contact is a go for Thu 2005-12-15 15:42 UTC 54 deg
Proposed questions for Mt. Carmel: (***)
1. What was the most important aspect of your training as you prepared for
this mission?
2. What do you do for fun in the ISS?
3. What kind of rehabilitation must you go through when you re-enter the
one-g environment here on Earth?
4. Does the temperature in the ISS change?
5. How accurate are the movie portrayals of life in space? Which movie is
closest to the reality?
6. Have any micrometeorites ever struck the ISS?
7. What's the best thing the engineers designed into the space station that
you are most thankful for?
8. How does the view of the stars from the ISS compare to the view here on
Earth?
9. How many students have you had an opportunity to talk to while in the ISS?
10. How do you exercise in the ISS?
11. What do you find most interesting about being in space?
12. Can you see satellites or other objects from the ISS?
13. What is the most surprising thing that you can see when you look back at
the Earth?
14. What are some of the experiments you are doing in the ISS?
15. Has anyone become sick while on the ISS and what do you do for them?
16. Was it always your dream to become an astronaut?
17. Have you tried throwing an object in one direction to get moving in the
opposite direction? (conservation of momentum)
18. Do you get to go outside the space station to do work?
19. What's the most important character trait every astronaut must have?
20. After being up there so long, do you have ideas for future improvements
on the ISS?
Riverhead Central School District – Aquebogue School, Aquebogue, NY, USA,
direct via N2RBU
TBD UTC
Proposed questions for Riverhead:
1. Now that you're so far away from earth, what is it that you appreciate
most now being away from earth?
2. Will the ISS create closer ties between the nations involved?
3. At night do you dream of earth or space?
4. Does going to outer space affect a person's memory?
5. Does heat still rise, creating convection currents when there is no
gravity?
6. Do you sweat in space?
7. Do you have any exciting/important jobs in space? What are they?
8. If you are so close to the sun, how come it is dark all the time?
9. Have you seen anything "mysterious" up there?
10. How does your food stay down in your stomach? Does it come back up like
heartburn?
11. How do astronauts communicate when they are on a spacewalk?
12. Have you ever seen a meteor shower from the International Space Station?
13. What would you do if the ship caught on fire?
14. How do insects behave in zero gravity?
15. What do you do if someone gets sick?
16. When you move around the International Space Station, do you use a swim
like motion or do you grab something and pull?
17. Do you ever feel scared?
18. Can you see the moon revolving around the Earth? What does the moon look
like from where you are?
19. Why is it cold in space when you're near he sun?
20. Are you having fun or is it a lot of work?
21. Why are you up there?
22. If you exercise in micro gravity do you get muscles? Why or why not?
23. How does it feel to be in space?
24. Is it possible to light a flame in space?
25. How do you know how much food to bring?
Carman Park Elementary School, Carman Ainsworth School District, Flint, MI,
USA, telebridge via TBD
TBD UTC
Proposed questions for Carman Park: (***)
1. Commander Bill McArthur, knowing that you will be in space for six
months, can you e-mail your wife Cindy and your two daughters, often?
2. Commander McArthur, on a space walk are you hooked to the ISS, if not how
would you get back if you floated away?
3. With the technology on the ISS can you detect information about natural
disasters like the hurricanes?
4. Commander Bill McArthur, does one person always have to be awake aboard
the ISS?
5. Commander Bill McArthur, do you ever run into space debris or comets on
the ISS?
6. Commander Bill McArthur, last week we made ecosystems with fish, could
they live on the ISS.
7. Commander McArthur, does the ISS run on only solar power?
8. Commander Bill McArthur, will you celebrate any of the holidays aboard
the ISS?
9. Commander McArthur, you have been in space three times before. What does
it feel like when you come back from space?
10. Commander McArthur, How will the new “Ultrasound” information help us
get to Mars?
11. Commander Bill, is it hard for you to go on a space walk?
12. You go around the earth every 90 minutes. How can you tell what time it
is?
13. Commander McArthur: Would the grass we grew in our terrarium grow on the
ISS?
14. Commander Bill McArthur, you wear glass. Does space affect them (like
fogging up)?
15. Commander McArthur, how much time do you have to do research aboard the
ISS?
16. Commander Bill McArthur, how long do you have to work out each day to
stay healthy?
17. Commander McArthur, what do you like to do with your free time on the
ISS?
18. Commander McArthur, what is the toughest thing for you aboard the ISS?
19. Commander Bill McArthur, what precautions would you take, if one of your
windows cracked?
20. Commander McArthur, what do you like to do the most aboard the ISS?
25th Asia Pacific Scout Jamboree 2005, Bangkok, Thailand, direct via E20AJ
TBD UTC
Itaki Elementary School Fathers' Club (Oyajinokai), Japan, direct via
callsign TBD
TBD UTC
Cadet Ham Radio Club, United States Military Academy, West Point, NY, USA,
via TBD
TBD UTC
Cincinnati Country Day School, Cincinnati, OH, USA, direct via K8YMI
TBD UTC
Timber Creek High School in Orlando, FL, USA, via TBD
TBD UTC
Cosmos Centre Charleville, Charleville, Australia, telebridge via VK5ZAI
TBD UTC
Jaanimmarik School, Kuujjuaq, Quebec, Canada, telebridge via TBD
TBD UTC
Samuel Hearne Secondary School, Inuvik, NT, Canada, telebridge via TBD
TBD UTC
Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver, Colorado, telebridge via TBD
TBD UTC.
Euro Space Center, Belgium, telebridge via ON4ESC
TBD UTC
Questions for Euro Space Center:
1. How does one feel in space, psychologically speaking?
2. Did you have to face unexpected issues during launch or after docking?
3. How is a typical working day onboard the ISS? When do you get up and how
many hours do you have to work? When do you go to bed?
4. A practical question : what do you do with bodily waste?
5. What kind of studies are best suited to become an astronaut?
6. Has it ever happened that an astronaut had to leave the space station on
short notice because of illness or accident?
7 They say that a manned flight to Mars should be possible around 2020. Do
you think this is realistic?
8. Was the Indian Tsunami visible from the ISS?
9. Does the faulty electrical oxygene generator worry you? Is a replacement
being planned?
10. Is the space station a noisy environment?
11. Would the Soyuz, the Progress and the future European ATV be sufficient
to maintain a permanent crew onboard the ISS if the space shuttles failed to
fly?
12. Isn’t it risky to have both crew members perform an EVA together while
the station is left unmanned?
13. Could you see the fireworks over France July 14th, their national
feast-day?
14. Are meteor tracks in the atmosphere visible from the ISS like we can
observe shooting stars from earth?
15. When you look at the rising moon, does she look bigger than when she is
high in the sky, or is this an earthbound phenomenon?
16. The experiments you perform onboard will possibly benefit life on earth.
Can you give an example?
17. Is the pollution of the earth visible from the ISS?
18. Did looking at the earth from space change your vision of the world?
19. Did you experience light flashes in your eyes in the dark? What is this
like? Is this due to cosmic rays?
20. After a while, do you feel weightlessness as natural or does it remain a
strange feeling?
Georgia Tech Institute of Technology - Aerospace Engineering Dept, Atlanta,
GA, USA, via TBD
TBD UTC
Peterson Elementary, Red Springs, NC, USA, via TBD
TBD UTC
St. Albert the Great School, North Royalton, Ohio, USA, direct via K8BVI
TBD UTC
Proposed questions for St. Albert the Great:
1. How are you going to clean up the “space junk” orbiting space?
2*. How far away are you from home? [*Depends on actual contact day and time]
2*. Where do you sleep in space? [*Depends on actual contact day and time]3.
Could you see the hurricanes from the space station and if so, what did they
look like?
4. What was your favorite part of training?
5. If I would want to become an astronaut, how many years of college would I
need? What type of degree, and how much additional training would I need?
6. Is it hard to take a shower?
7. What was it like at liftoff?
8. What would happen if one person on the spaceship needs surgery or if one
gets sick, or needs to be treated with medication in space?
9. How do you maintain oxygen in the space station?
10. What is the most life-changing experience you’ve had in space?
11*. How does gravity work on earth? [*Depends on actual contact day and
time]
11*. Are you scared when you “blast off”? [*Depends on actual contact day
and time]
12. How do you carry up enough oxygen to last the entire mission?
13. Are you collecting anything?
14. What do you do if you get the stomach flu in space? Can you see the
Great Wall of China from space?
15. How long will it be before regular people can go into space?
16. How do you swallow food with zero gravity?
17. If you could break rules and bring anything you wanted up to space, what
would you bring?
18. Is it hard to adjust to walking again once you return to earth?
Sir James Lougheed Elementary School, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, via TBD
TBD UTC
J.D. Jackson Elementary, Dale, OK, USA, direct via KD5GEZ
TBD UTC
Parker School, Parker, South Dakota, USA, direct via N0LAN
TBD UTC
Cleveland Heights High School, Cleveland Heights, OH, USA, direct via KC8SRG
TBD UTC
E.L. DeGolyer Elementary, Dallas, Texas, direct via K5DES
TBD UTC
Bowie High School, Bowie, Maryland, 2002-11-08, direct via TBD
TBD UTC
STS ESCOLA DE AVIAÇÃO CIVIL, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, direct via PY1KCF (***)
TBD UTC
1°Circolo Didattico Statale (G.Settanni), Rutigliano, Italy, direct via
IZ7EVR (***)
TBD UTC
Currently the ARISS operations team has a list of 60 schools that we
hope will be able to have a contact during 2005. As the schedule becomes
more solidified, we will be letting everyone know. Current plans call for an
average of one scheduled school contact per week.
73,
Charlie Sufana AJ9N
One of the ARISS operation team mentors
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